Maker Directory

Janet Downes

I make jewellery mainly using silver sheet and wire in a variety of techniques. I also use PMC to make pure silver chip beads which I incorporate into jewellery made with semi-precious chip beads.
I started with courses at the Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery where I had a lot of fun and learned the basics. I gradually collected my own tools and have recently acquired my own workshop at home where I enjoy experimenting to see what will work. I find it inspirational to be able to live and work amongst the hills, beaches, seas and skies of Cornwall.

Janet Wass

I design and make jewellery, elegantly combining and contrasting silver with acrylic.
Having originally completed a degree in photography before gaining my MA in Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University, I am keen to combine these interests within my work. I am inspired by the everyday: highlighting the detail and beauty of objects we often visually ignore through photograms. These images and patterns are transferred onto the surfaces of the silver and acrylic using photo-etching and laser-engraving.
I use the organic nature of the patterns derived from photograms as contrast to the clean regular shapes of my jewellery to create interest and elegance. All my work is polished by hand, including pieces that are laser-cut to ensure a high quality and consistent finish.

Janine Partington

Janine Partington is a designer-maker based in Bristol who combines the traditional craft of enamelling with fresh, clean, contemporary design to create framed panels, jewellery and sculptures.
Enamelling is the art of fusing glass onto metal. Janine creates intricate hand-cut stencils which she then lays on to copper. Her stencils are in the main inspired by trees, flowers, seedheads and the natural landscape. After sifting the powdered enamel over the stencil, Janine fires the piece at a high temperature in a kiln. This process is repeated many times until the work is finished. No two pieces are identical due to the nature of the process.

I am a textile artist based in a South Northamptonshire village where I work from my home studio drawing, designing and stitching. My work is about imagination, memories and childhood narratives and is greatly influenced by the visual experience of observing life when I am in Denmark, Norfolk and the South West of England. I […]

JEMS Jewellery by Emma.M.Swailes

Throughout Emma’s life jewellery had always been of great importance, whether to make or wear, it was her identity. In 2009 Emma enrolled for Metalwork & Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam, graduating in 2012. Armed with only a piercing saw, many broken blades and some scrap metal, Emma set up JEMS: Jewellery by Emma.M.Swailes working from her basement in Leeds. JEMS is a jewellery design business creating narrative fun precious objects and silver jewellery inspired by one of her most treasured possessions; her memories. The childhood trips to the coast, and the junk she would bring back with her simply as a memory aid. “Every day I look at photos or hold the many pebbles scattered around the house that I brought back from the coast.” The act of reminiscing is such a personal one, and to remember the days gone by helps me develop my future, it seems so ironic. To be so attached to an object simply for memory’s sake is something truly human and to be able to design and make these pieces is an honour. Commissions are welcomed so feel free to get in touch.

Jen Moules

Jen Moules is a designer maker specialising in interior textile products and wallpapers using a range of design methods such as screen printing by hand, digital manipulation and traditional hand embroidery. Her work is available to buy directly from her website and is also available for commissioned projects.

Jennifer has led the way in the upcycling revolution in art and craft; a veteran maker of vintage material, investigating the re-used and recycled since 1999. “Giving new life to things that would otherwise go unloved or be thrown away,” is central to her practice. Welcome to her fantastical world, where every exquisite detail is […]

Jessica Langford

I am a Contemporary Applied Artist who specialises in illustrations, ceramics and jewellery pieces which express style, show personal identity and demand attention. Using innovative combinations of materials like silver, leather, rubber and ceramics, I create pieces which you not only want to grab and feel but HAVE to have.

The aesthetic and design of manufactured metal tins hasn’t changed for over 200 years. Fascinated by this curious fact, Jessica began to design and make ceramic pieces inspired by the characteristics and forms of metal tins through vitrified porcelain. A love for both cooking and eating has naturally influenced Jessica’s functional response within her designs. […]

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